LPR Piacenza – Sir Safety Conad Perugia 0-3 (23-25, 20-25, 23-25) – LPR Piacenza: Hierrezuelo 4, Clevenot 13, Tencati 0, Hernandez Ramos 10, Marshall 11, Alletti 8, Parodi (L), Cottarelli 1, Manià (L), Tzioumakas 0, Yosifov 0, Di Martino 2, Papi 0. DNP Zlatanov. Coach. Giuliani. Sir Safety Conad Perugia: De Cecco 1, Zaytsev 8, Podrascanin 12, Atanasijevic 12, Russell 15, Birarelli 12, Tosi (L), Berger 0, Bari (L). DNP. Buti, Della Lunga, Chernokozhev, Paris, Franceschini. Coach. Bernardi. REFEREES: Sobrero, Cesare. NOTES – sets: 30′, 28′, 30′; tot: 88′. Mvp: Russell
Piacenza wasn’t able to contain the power of Perugia in Gara 2, but Lpr fought until the end with heart and determination. Sir Safety showed once again their strength, winning on three sets versus a combative Piacenza. Aaron Russell was Mvp and best scorer of the game with 15 points, a good job down the net also for the middle blockers, 12 points apiece for Marko Podrascanin and Emanuele Birarelli. For Podrascanin a great percentage in attack, 80%. For Lpr Piacenza 13 points for Trevor Clavenot, 11 for Leonel Marshall and 10 for Fernando Hernandez. All the sets were on the edge, in first Ivan Zaytsev closed the set for Perugia, in second is still Zaytsev the go to guy for Sir, with a bunch of great serves, in third Piacenza is in the lead for long part of the set, but in the end the experience and the class of Perugia gave the win in the set in the match and in the series to Lorenzo Bernardi’s team. Sir Safety Conad Perugia to the semifinals versus Trento, Lpr Piacenza in Playoff Challenge quarterfinals, where they will face the winner of the series between Top Volley Latina and Revivre Milano.
Attendence: 2562
Mvp: Aaron Russell
Leonel Marshall (LPR Piacenza): “We knew it would be a difficult game, and so it was. We gave our best, we were coming from a complicated week after Cev Cup’s game versus Trento and the game in Perugia, where we did not play at our level. I’m happy for our game on tonight, it was almost impossible to win versus this opponent, but I’m happy because we gave everything, we put all our forces on the court”.
Lorenzo Bernardi (Sir Safety Conad Perugia): “It was a great and important win, it wasn’t easy to come here and grab the win. We did not play at the same level of saturday, in third set we did alot of mistakes. They are a team with quality and with alot of motivations after saturday’s loss, they could be dangerous. Now we have 10 days to prepare the challenge versus Trento, we need to step up in our level of volleyball, we will need to take soon the lead of the series winning on the road”.
